Application of Geometrical Diffraction Theory to Scattering by Cracks
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1978
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Achenbach, J
Gautesen, A
McMaken, H
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Abstract
At high frequencies, the geometrical theory of diffraction provides useful and relatively simple approximations to diffracted fields. In this paper the theory is applied to the diffraction of time-harmonic longitudinal waves by a penny-shaped crack in an elastic solid.